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Mrs Thatcher’s Religious Pilgrimage

Jeremy Seabrook & Trevor Blackwell

‘Mrs Thatcher's success is not only in her ability to plunder the chapel culture in which she was born - that fertile source of imagery and suasion - for she is also a story-teller to the nation, offering us easy and instant illustrations like those of the brightly coloured pop-up picture books of our childhood.’